Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

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A live radio show picks up where the first nationwide African-American radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting.

As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom (now branded Black Radio Days classic) this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the very beginning. That boundary-breaking program, Destination Freedom, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present, continues in its spirit with all-new scripts.

Produced by donnie l. betts.

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Episodes

S2 EP18 - The Eclectic - Interview with Colorado 2021 Teacher of The Year Gerardo Munzo

S2 EP18 – The Eclectic – Interview with Colorado 2021 Teacher of The Year Gerardo Munzo

Gerardo Muñoz, 2021 Colorado Teacher of the Year. Gerardo A. Muñoz of Denver, Colorado, is a high school and middle school social studies teacher at the Denver Center for International Studies (DCIS) ...
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S2 EP 17 The Gravediggers Handicap: The Story of Issac Murphy

The Kentucky Derby is held on the first Saturday of May every year. Folks may be familiar with the fine clothes, big hats, and of course the fast horses. But did you know the first 10 winners of the Derby ...
S2 EP16 The Eclectic - Interview with Entrepreneur Jice Johnson

S2 EP16 The Eclectic – Interview with Entrepreneur Jice Johnson

Jice Johnson is the Founder and CVO of the Black Business Initiative and Principle in the New Community Transformation Fund - Denver. Jice is a U.S Army Veteran, a mother of three, and an astute businesswoman ...
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S2 EP15 Give Me Liberty: A Freeman’s Story part 3

Give Me Liberty: A Free Man's Story, part 3 of 3, is the second chapter of the audio drama of historical fiction written by John and Sydney Futrell. The piece was inspired by real events, as described ...
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S2 EP14 Give Me Liberty: A Freeman’s Story part 2

Give Me Liberty: A Free Man's Story, part 2 of 3, is the second chapter of the audio drama of historical fiction written by John and Sydney Futrell. The piece was inspired by real events, as described ...
DESTINATION FREEDOM BLACK RADIO DAYS PODCAST-8

S2 Ep13 Give Me Liberty A Freeman’s Story part 1

Give Me Liberty: A Free Man's Story part 1 of 3 is the first chapter of the audio drama of historical fiction written by John and Sydney Futrell. The piece was inspired by real events, as described ...

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